Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:29:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sd0: Can't deal with 514 bytes logical blocks Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980821002838.4122A-100000@puck.nether.net> In-Reply-To: <35DC8681.59E2B600@whistle.com>
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Oh! I'm sorry. Let me apologize, because I figured out what was wrong,
and fixed it..... without letting anyone know.
It came from the factory with 514 byte sectors. a low-level format from
adaptecs lovely utilities fixed that. :)
thank you guys very much,
-Irving
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:26:41 -0700
> From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
> To: Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net>
> Subject: Re: sd0: Can't deal with 514 bytes logical blocks
>
> Thou shouldst address thy riddle to that group scsi@freebsd.org..
> :-)
>
> Irving Popovetsky wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm attempting to install a pretty old seagate 1-gig drive on my
> > 2.2.7-stable machine with an Adaptec 1540 ISA-based controller.
> >
> > When booting, it seems to detect it just fine:
> >
> > aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 11 drq 5 on isa
> > aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> > (aha0:0:0): "TANDEM 4240-1 6420" type 0 fixed SCSI 1
> > sd0(aha0:0:0): Direct-Access 999MB (2038001 514 byte sectors)
> >
> > but when something actually tries to access it (fdisk, for example), I get
> > the error:
> >
> > sd0: Can't deal with 514 bytes logical blocks
> > Debugger("sd") called.
> >
> > and then that program dies.
> >
> > I'm fairly green with a lot of scsi issues, so I'm basically stuck. Can
> > anyone help me out? is this disk even usable?
> >
> > Any help would be very appreciated ... or even a "throw the damn thing
> > out, Irving",
> >
> > -Irving Popovetsky, H.G.
> > ANS Communications - Dial Operations Specialist
> > Pioneer High School - Webmaster http://pioneer.citi.umich.edu
> >
> > grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange
> > Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally
> > `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok
> > in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes
> > intimate and exhaustive knowledge.
> >
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-Irving Popovetsky, H.G.
ANS Communications - BigDial Operations Specialist
Pioneer High School - Webmaster http://pioneer.citi.umich.edu
grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange
Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally
`to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok
in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes
intimate and exhaustive knowledge.
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